Summary: This week at ITPL, the American history podcast, I interview historian Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The US during Reconstruction & the Gilded Age, 1865-1896. In this extraordinary period, industrialization booms, mass migration surges into the West, and the South is reincorporated back into the Union. But it’s also a period of political turmoil, strikes, anti-immigrant sentiment, fear of big business and inequality, and a white supremacist uprising to impose the Jim Crow orde
